Jan van Herwijnen - 1953 - post-impressionist oil paint - Autumn landscape with blue sky - sig. - Sold

• Johannes Adrianus George 'Jan' van Herwijnen was born on November 4, 1889 in Delft and died on April 12, 1965 in Bergen (NH). He was a Dutch painter and draftsman.

Jan van Herwijnen was a self-taught artist. He grew up in a working-class family and at the age of fourteen he left for England, where he had various jobs to earn his living. He even worked as a cook's mate on board seagoing vessels. He developed his talent by copying paintings in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In 1912 he received a grant from Mr. Van Riemsdijk, the director of the Rijksmuseum, which allowed him to devote himself entirely to painting and drawing. Van Herwijnen traveled a lot and spent some time in Paris and the south of France. In January 1920 he already had an exhibition in the Heystee building on the Herengracht in Amsterdam, where his drawings were on display. In 1923 he exhibited in Collioure. In 1919 he made a series of thirty large portrait drawings of psychiatric patients in the Willem Arntsz Hoeve in Utrecht. He is also known for his portraits of the deceased in the mortuary of the Wilhelminagasthuis in Amsterdam. After working in Amsterdam, Arnhem until 1926, and Heemstede, he settled in Bergen in 1939, where his artistic style further developed. Here he painted landscapes, flowers and still lifes, which belong to the Bergen School. Jan van Herwijnen was a member of Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam and of the KunstenaarsCentrumBergen (KCB) in Bergen.